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Well, I would say the "server motherboard" one is common sense, it's self explanatory, like the famous question "what colour is Napoleon's white horse?" ... self explanatory! 

Agreed. Everyone knows it was purple!

R.I.P. vrm's.
Does his PC still work or has he burned his vrm's already?
Fortunately my parents don't do that. Over here it's the other way around.
 
"Dominique, PC is broken. Fix it."
Any idea how many non-tech/gamer people simply don't want to listen? They think they know exactly what you're doing because they heard something about it.
(Like anti-gamer moms that are anti-gamer because Fox News told them games are the cause of all serial killers and rapists.)

My friend got a FX 9730 with a £60 motherboard.
 
My reaction was like this
 

questions seen on this forum this morning ... *sigh*
 
1. "what do you mean by server motherboard?"
 
2. "how can I overclock my Celeron J*** CPU to 4.7Ghz like a i5-4***k ???"
 
 
... common sense, NOT all that common after all!

Except saying that one should use a specific OS because of a browser that isn't OS specific is completely wrong.
 
In this case, yes there are tons of reasons for using Linux, but Firefox ain't one of those.

When you friend calls you and is like, This does not work can you please make it work for me
 
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4uUXRcDZBw

Day 2
Me - *Shows Bob this as a joke*
Bob - That Seems easy enough (he was serious)
Me - Go and watch LTT there show you what to do
Bob - cool
 
Day 3 
Bob brought the case today

My friends like to hit LCD displays with their fingers really hard when they're pointing something out or when they get frustrated. I've asked them not to do it several times (and explained why they shouldn't do it) and they always reply with, "I didn't even hit it that hard, look, it's fine," and proceed to jab it more to demonstrate.
 
Yesterday I found a very clearly damaged spot on a screen where they'd jabbed at it with their fingers earlier that week.  Nice dark spots with green glowing outlines and dead pixels. Fun stuff. When I pointed out the damage to them after they jabbed the screen today, they again told me that they "didn't hit it that hard" and demonstrated the fact by... forcefully poking the screen.

Hey look a new screenshot. Today, it's from...

BEST BUY!!!

I wonder why it's sold out lol.

Source: 
http://www.bestbuy.com/site/msi-enthusiast-gaming-series-atx-motherboard-2133mhz-socket-1151-multi/4832515.p?id=bb4832515&skuId=4832515&ref=199&loc=8BacdVP0GFs&acampID=1&siteID=8BacdVP0GFs-gq9t4ZO6RFzyBIkuQPoSMw

Anyone who claims a mac is better for gaming....

So my friend's PC broke. Fans aren't spinning and lights aren't turning on. I tested the cpu and psu and checked every connector and i'm pretty sure that his mobo is dead. He was about to buy a new one but i wanted to double check if his ram would work on the new one. He has LGA 775 and ddr3. I asked for a picture of his ram to check if it would work on the new mobo. This is what happened

Not really a "non-techie" but I swear this exact conversation occurred in the middle of math class between me and my math teacher who is also the "IT Guy" at our school (sadly). Anyway, at the start of the year he told everybody to get 3 of your friends phone numbers so that if you forget your textbook or binder at school you can still complete your homework. So, my friend forgot to bring his textbook home one day and when he came to school the next day the teacher asked why he didn't finish. He said that he had called me but I never picked up. The thing is, he didn't call my number, he called me on Google Hangouts. At the time my phones Wi-Fi wasn't working (and still isn't ). I thought it was because of my custom ROM at the time. So my math teacher turns to me and goes:
 
Teacher: Why didn't you answer his phone call?
Student: Because the Wi-Fi on my phone doesn't work.
Teacher: Why?
Student: I tried putting a custom ROM on it and I guess it messed up during installation.
Teacher: What? A custom ROM? Why do you need a custom ROM?
Student: Because Touchwiz uses like 1.7GBs or RAM with all the background apps.
Teacher: So? How much RAM does your phone have?
Student: 2GBs.
Teacher: So? Isn't 300MBs enough RAM? What are you doing on your phone that needs 300MBs of RAM? (Are you kidding me?)
Student: Just... stuff? I don't know, I do a lot of stuff on my phone. Watch YouTube, play games, browse the internet, etc.
Teacher: So you put another ROM on it?
Student: Yeah, I use CyanogenMod. It only uses like 1-1.2GBs now.
Teacher: What? You put a ROM to get more RAM? You're getting confused, buddy. (Arrogant prick)
Student: Yeah, I put a custom ROM, so it uses less RAM.
Teacher: Okay listen, how much ROM does your phone have? 16MBs?
Student: 16GBs.
Teacher: Whatever, why do you need a new ROM if you want more RAM? (thinks I'm talking about an actual ROM chip)
Student: No, that's not what I meant by ROM. Like, I flashed a cust--
Teacher: Listen, ROM and RAM aren't the same, buddy.
Student: I know, that's what I'm try--
Teacher: Don't argue with me okay? Trust me, I know what I'm talking about. I'm a computer guy.
 
Computer guy my ass. Idiot can't even pirate Windows properly, 60% of the PCs in our school says "This is not a genuine copy of Windows". Seriously though, I felt like throwing my damn phone at his head

Today in School my friend says 
Bob - Im goning to become a pc gamer
Me - How
Bob - Build my own pc
Me - whats your budget 
Bob - 1 grand
Me - cool what parts 
Bob - No idea but must be a razer case so i can fit better stuff in it
Me - Will it be water cooled 
Bob - No that would destroy it
Me - *face palm*
-- later that day ---
Bob - is the hdmi thing the most expensive (he means gpu)
Me - I say im saving up for an itx build
Bob - whats itx 
Me - *face plam* a small motherboard standard
Bob - But you cant fit anything powerful in it
 
In between each statment everyone laughs at Bob
 

a person at my school thinks that if you type "cheat codes" while loading windows 7 it will go faster 

My brother told me someone at his school told him that they use pirate bay a lot, and to avoid getting viruses, they stop seeding as soon as the download is complete  

My mom knows nothing about computers, but loves to play games.
 
Her laptop is an Asus from 2013 with a Core-i3 and integrated graphics.  Usually she plays those WildTangent games, but as a huge fan, she wants to play The Walking Dead.
The Walking Dead obviously has bigger system requirements than the WildTangent games.
 
She can't seem to understand this.  

Sony has a great marketing scheme.

Ok , so here's my story dealing with lack of trust  on part of people who don't understand tech.
 
So i was messing around with a C++ compiler doing basic "Hello World"-type stuff . Computer has issues .
 
I obviously rewrote part of the operating system ?

I once spent like 30 minutes trying to explain to my grandma the difference between a computer and a monitor. She thought that the "white box" was the hard drive, and that it stored all of the data and that the "screen" (monitor) did the rest. She still, TO THIS DAY, calls the PC the hard drive and the monitor the computer.
 
Also, one time a friend wouldn't stop bothering me about how his WIFI stopped working on his laptop, so I finally caved and said I'd take a look at it. I opened the laptop to see that the guy had pressed the WIFI disable (toggle) button is his keyboard, and that's why it wouldn't work.

"How do I install Word on my Xbox?" - today's words of "wisdom"

One time this girl said she liked programming games instead of playing them. So i asked her what language she programmed them in (a normal question right?). She didn't miss a beat and replied, "Japaneses". I laughed and said, "No, what programming language". She paused and said, "Oh, that one with all the 0's and 1's".

One time my house cleaner cleaned my computer and my BIOS went like
 

Last year my Friend's second hand laptop (was handed down from her bother) was slow, still running Windows 8 not 8.1 (her brother had upgraded from 7 a year or two before and I think it had been a worn out install of 7), had literally a 1000 registry errors, and about 100 viruses. She didn't want to go to 8.1 at the time so I went with what I had to work with. cleaned the whole system with malwarebytes, ran it 3 times, used CCleaner to fix the registry, and defragged the hard drive. My Girlfriend gave her one of her keys to Kaspersky and set her up on that. It was still a bit slow but much safer and quicker than before. A month later the laptop died, turns out it was a Dell laptop notorious for over heating and having CPU and GPU separation. Only solution at the time was to do the towel trick (we were at college then and this was her only computer to do school work on) and then let it cool. I told her it would only work a few times at most and she needed to back it up before it wouldn't work anymore. She then preceded to use the towel trick every few days instead of backing it up and getting a loaner or cheap used laptop, It ran shorter and shorter times until the towel trick didn't work anymore. She ended up nuking it, losing all her data, (I had no HDD reader and she probably couldn't use an electric can opener), and she had to use the school's lab computers to do her work, including her last project for the last month before we graduated. She went home with a Dell paperweight and it probably was tossed with all her data still stuck in it.

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